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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
SECOND PART.
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JANUAET 19. 1890.
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money in any direction for the sons, too, mar-1
ried wealthy girls, Aliss V anamacer is so
pretty that she would be a "catch" if she
had not a cent but the possession of so
much gold makes her the most interesting
girl of the season, for she is newer than
Miss Leiter and almost as lovely. She
knows a thine or two abont money, and
is sincere enough to recognize sincerity in
others. The fortune-hunter who follows
her will be unwise. For over a year she
has been learning how to take care of
money. Her father gives her an allowance
and she buys all that she wears.
No one questions Miss Wanamaker about
her spendings, and even if she overdraws
considerably on her bank acconnt it only
brings a laughing criticism Irom her father.
But what girl does not overdraw? They
tell me that they get an allowance of from
53,000 to 510,000 per year, and the only girl
in "Washington who has not overdrawn hers
is Miss Florence "Windom. Of course, she
does not get that much, as the Secretary of
the Treasury is not a very wealthy man, but
whatever Miss Florence gets she cameiiome
after a shopping tour in New York a
short time ago with 23 cents in her purse.
I chatted with one of the richest girls of
"Washington last night as to how she spent
her 10,000 allowance.
"I suppose it includes all your traveling
expenses," said I.
"Oh, dear, no. Papa always pays such
things."
"Then you pay your living expenses, I
suppose?"
"What an idea," said the millionaire's
daughter.
"Well, do you buy your own jewels?"
"Certainly not My jewels are all pres
ents from my lather or others."
"Oh, it goes to your dressmaker for your
imported dresses?"
"No; but I'll tell you a secret Mamma
always has such things put on her bills."
"Well," said I, "for what do you spend
it? For your face powder and hairpins,
with a few cents for candy?"
"Te-es."
In the name of Crcesns and all the gods ot
fortune think of $10,000 for hairpins and
candy I I don't wonder that the girl has to
use face powder, do yon?
Miss "Wanamaker is the only very rich
girl in the Cabinet, although the two Blaine
girls are not poor by any means. There is
now no chance for the elder Margaret, for
she is soon to be married to Mr. Walter
Damrosch, but the pretty debutante, Hattie,
will bring her Juturc husband, tbev say,
$400,000. Miss Florence Miller, daughter
ol the Attorney General, will have from
75.000 to SIOO'.OOO. and both the Windom
daughters as much. The five daughters of
the .Morton house will have pretty fortunes
when they come of age $2,000,000 orS3.000,
000 apiece and they are being educated by
their sensible mother as though they were
one day to take care of themselves instead
of fortunes.
Michigan comes out ahead in the million
dollar girls it loans to the Capital this sea
son. There will be five of them
and the man who sits in Senator
McMillan's dove-colored parlor can call
himself blessed for four maids who will
count their millions will talk to him. First
of all comes Miss Amy, the only daughter
of the house. Light, fair and modest, yet
she can vie with Miss Leiter as the heiress
of Washington. Three million dollars, if a
cent is what she will one day inherit and
possibly half again as muchas Detroiters
vouch lor it that Senator McMillan's for
tune is steadily increasing. Lumber, car
wheels and iron mines are the backbone ol
this lump of monev which Miss Am v Mb.
Millan will one day share with her three
brothers and the little child of her only sis
ter who died last year. Inspiteof her wealth
Miss McMillan is modest and unassuming
and enjoyed her first ball the other night as
much as the poorest and prettiest girl pres
ent
ent- is preiiy 100, ana lortune hunters
claim mat tney pay her the Lomage of for
getting her fortune when they dance with
her.
She is sensible, withal, and knows a thing
or two abont money. Though only 19 for
two years her father has given her control
of some corpulent bank stock, the interest
of which makes up her yearly allowance.
She has everything he wants. Think of it
but it is literally true but her father in
sist that she shall know the comparative
values of a thimble and a diamond ring.
Although she bis boxes of jewels i-he will
wear none of them, and at her first ball she
had not even a diamond "sticker" pin
tucked awav in her corsage.
The second of Michigan's heiresses who
are giving Washington fortune-hunters a
chance is Miss Alice McMillan, daughter
of the second of the wealthy McMillan
brothers. She is of an age with her cousin,
and has quite as neat a fortune.- The two
of them represent 6,000,000 when they ride
out Tenallytown way together as they fre
quently do.
The other two heiresses who will be guests
of Miss McMillan are Miss Thompson and
Miss Newberry, of Detroit The first is the
daughter of ex-Mayor Thompson and has
loads of money as well as considerable
beauty. The second owns a slice of the
heart of the City of the Straits and it riets
her a rental of iwO. 000 annually. Shu ! th
only one of the quartet who will pocket he'r J
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Society Who Swim in a Sea of
Fashionable Circles.
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Washington, January 11.
HE matrimonial market of the capital is now in fall blast
There are more millions offered by the matchmakers than
the surplus in the Treasury and fortnnes by the score are
trotting around in petticoats. The fortune hunters are after
them, too, and the black eyes of the Pan-American delegates
fairly snap as they are told that the sweet young girls whom
they swing around in the landers could buy up a few South
American republics with cold cash. The eyes of the im
pecunious army and nary gallants bnlge out with eagerness
as they estimate the luxuries which these million-dollar
might bring them and the great but poor Congressmen
Bare been so fortunate as not to get married at home
spend more time in soheming on
their matrimonial possibilities
than upon their legislative repu
tations. And well they may, for the game
is worth the candle. There are.
rich girls everywhere. The Cabi
net circle has one or two. The gold
bags of the Senate furnish three or
four, and the millionaires of a
half-dozen different cities have
cent their heiresses here to mar
ket Society dances the razzle
dazzle about them, and while their
suitors bark their knees in doing
them homage Miss Grundy, Jr.,
will tell you who they are.
There is Miss Minnie Wana
maker. Who can compute her for
tune? "Two millions," one says;
"double that," says another, "a
full 6,000,000 by the time she will
inherit it" says a third. There
are four children in the Wana
maker family, two sons and two
daughters, and they can swim in
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million when she comes of age, which is less
than a year.
Miss Fay Alger, daughter of General
Bussell Alger, will have bags of gold some
day. She will be at the Capital most of the
season chaperoned by Mrs. General Logan
and Mrs. J. S. Clarkson. In the mar
riageable market she Is quoted at $2,000,
000 with a good possibility of doubling
these figures ten years from now. She was
here a fortnight last winter and many an
army and navy gallant arrayed himself un
der her banner. The navies and the boys
in blue are the greatest lor
tune hunters next to the for
eigners at the Capital and
many a one wooed so precip
itately last year that Miss
Alger still laughs at them.
For she has a keen sense of
humor, and Portia-like, re
ceives all suitors. She is a
semi-brunette, lithe and tall
and she dresses exquisitely.
Miss Harriet and Miss
Florence Pullman, of Chi
cago, will be here with
the Michigan heiresses, as
they, too, will spend Janu
ary here under the chaperon
aee of Mrs. Logan. They
will each have 2,000,000
some day, and even now
they have bank stock in their
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$200,000 each. They each receive yearly al
lowance and live within it
Miss Pauncefote, the eldest daughter of
the British Minister, will have a fortune, as
she inherits both from her mother and
father, who are well-to-do.
Next to Miss McMillan, Miss Mary and
Miss Bacbael Cameron are the heiresses of
the Senatorial circle. People will not see
much of Miss Mary, as she keeps house for
her brother in Harrisbnrg, but the younger
one has already set the world by the ears,
she is so pretty and cultured. These girls
inherit from three sources. Their mother,
who was a Miss McCormick, daughter of
one of the wealthiest citizens of Harrisburg,"
left each of them $200,000. At their grand
father, Simon Cameron's death, they each
received double that, and of course they will
share with Senator Don Cameron's four
other children in his large estate. They are
fine business women. With the money in
herited from their mother they built hand
some houses in Washington, and take care
of the rentals with the ability of tried busi
ness men. They are both charitable, but
have the Cameron Scotch shrewdness, and
will never do anything sensational Or rash
with their fortunes.
Miss Quay, daughter of the Pennsylvania
Senator, is not as rich as the Misses Cam
eron, but she will one day have a tidy sum
of a quarter of a million.
In the very center ot the rosebud garden
of heiresses is Miss Mary Leiter, eldest
daughter of Mr. L. Z. Leiter, formerly of
Chicago. Mr. Leiter is many times a mil
lionaire, bnt as he has five children, their
inheritance will be abont $3,000,000 each.
Miss Leiter cannot be had for the asking,
as many attaches of the legations here
have found out She has been courted in
New York and Newport as well as in Wash
ington, land at this minute she is the most
envied girl at the Capital. In addition to
the finest frocks, the fairest face and loads
of money, she has at last landed her family,
in suite of seemingly hopeless difficulties,
in the very heart of the United States'
four hundred. That is the reason the peo
ple at the Capital are jealous of her. Her
fortune is as taut as a new ship. It is in
great part invested in Chicago and Wash
ington resl estate. Of course, she will not
receive it all until her father's death, but
she already controls enough bank stock to
give her a yearly allowance of $10,000 for
her clothes. Just double the salary of a
hard-working member is what this young
girl has for her pin money.
The millions made by .ex-Senator Henry
G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins in New
Mexico mines and West Virginia railroads
are on tne market in three handsome girls.
Miss Grace Davis and Misses Sallie and
Lizzie Elkins. Miss TJavim made her dfthnt
under her sister, Mrs. Lieutenant Brown's 1
cnaperonage January 9, and the daughters
of Mr. Elkins will appear later at the Capi
tal as guests of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and
Mrs. J. S. Clarkson. Senator Davis is
quoted at $10,000,000, and when his three
daughters. Mrs. Elkins. Mrs. Ttmtrn .nil
Miss Davis came of age he gave each of I
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the family Miss Ida and her brother Boss
and the great fortune of their father is well
invested in bant stock ana real estate, ana
Mr. Thompson is adding to his pile every
year. Miss Thompson is bright
well educated and widely trav
eled. She accompanies her fath
er everywhere, and has just re
turned "from an extended tour
through Norway. Bussia, South
Europe and Turkey. She pre
sides over one of the finest houses
at the Capital and ranks high as
a hostess.
Miss Lowrie,daughter of Judge
Lowrie,- and Miss Anna Wil
son are other rich Washington-
lans. They have both oeen out
some time and have turned down
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four other girls in the Capital of the nation.
Miss Lowne's fortune touches'on $4,000,000
and is firmly invested in F street business
blocks and United States bonds. Judge
Jeremiah Wilson came here several years
ago from Indiana, and has been oiling up
money, which will one day go to his daugh
ter Anna. She is a friend ot Mrs. Harrison's
and Mrs. McKce's, and will be seen much
at the White House.
Another Washington girl who inherits two
or three millions, is Miss Mary Shellabar
ger, daughter of Judge Shellabarger, for
merly of Ohio. She is only 19 and has ap-
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peared little in society owing to the death of
her brother and sister" about the time she
was to have made her debut last year.
But the heiress who will one day dazzle
the eyes oi Washington comes out next
year. She is Miss Ellen Warder, and, if
you please, will hold $5,000,000 in the hand
which she gives in marriage. Her father'
came from Springfield, O., built at an ex
pense of $200,000 one of the finest houses on
K street and has made every preparation to
bring out his daughter la royal style. She
is now in a New York school!
nnal interest of $5,000 to make them feel independent It
was nominally to support them, too, but Miss Davis con
fesses that she has never touched her interest, but had all
her bills sent to her father, as she did not want to be ham
pered with on allowance. "When asked how she felt at
having interest piling op, she said it made her feel although
Lshe could have anything she saw and consequently she de-
i mea nerseu mnca sne would have if dependent on ner lamer.
viampoeu, aaugnter oi unio s new uui-
ernor, will innem nan a
million some day, as her
mother is a very rich woman.
She will spend part of the
season here.
Of the rich girls of Wash-
, fm ington the richest br all odds
U? m will be Mils Ida Thompson,
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"Washington banker, . John
W. Thompson, who takes the
place of W. W. Corcoran as
the wealthiest man in
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One of the inheritors of the big Corcoran
estate will spend most of the winter here.
She is Miss Lulu Eustis, and has $1,600,000.
Miss Pauline Bancroft, granddaughter of
the historian, will only inherit $100,000, as
she is one of many grandchildren, bnt her
beauty and name make her compare with
any heiress in value.
Miss Mattie Mitchell is the prettiest of
the good catches of Washington. Her
father gets $10,000 fees for his law cases and
has made several fortunes. Miss Mattie has
been a beauty in London and Paris as well
as America, and the man who gets her will
have both beauty and gold galore.
Of the old families of the place, the Car
lisles have the most comfortable fortune.
Miss Mildred, the debutante of this season,
will inherit a goodly sum.
If men have bad luck with the rich so
ciety girls whom I have mentioned, they
can run across any number of women past
40 who have hearts and fortunes still un-
won. There are the two Misses Coleman,
for instance. One of the legends of Wash
ington is told of them. It seems that Mr.
Corcoran, after buying up land from many
rich people Jot 'a. site, for the Arlington
Hotel, wrote a polite note to the spinster
sisters asking how much they would take for
their rose garden, as he wanted to build on
it an annex to his new hotel.
A note came back, signed by both sisters,
and saying : "We want to enlarge our rose
garden. Will you sell the Arlington to
us?"
The two are past 60, but they have $2,000,
000 each.
Two other sisters, Miss Alice and Miss
Janette Elggs inherited one of the finest
estates in the city, that of George W. Biggs,
and any day they .could sign notes for sev
eral million dollars. Miss Alice is nearly
60, and her sister is ten years younger. At
one time they went much into society, but
of late years have been in mourning for rel
atives. Their father was W. W. Coreoran's
partner, and in addition to Biggs' Bank
they own property in the booming part of
the city.
The "Patten estate has been generally
overrated. When Mrs. Anastasia Patten
died two years ago she was saia to have left
an estate of $3,600,000, but it was only half
that much and now it is barely $1,100,000 as
the daughters have been in constant litiga
tion over it ever Bince their mother's death.
There are four of them Augusta, who has
married ex-Congressman Glover, of St
Louis; Mary and Josephine, who are now
in the matrimonial market and a younger
sister who is still at school.
Miss Gbundy, Jb.
Queer Preparations for Acting.
The Epoch.
What queer preparations some ajctors
make for their roles I A member of the
Amberg troupe tells me that Herr Possart,
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before stepping on the stage, bends his body
forward until it forms a right angle with his
legs, shakes his head vigorously, and then
stands up straight again. He has thus
thrown off his own individuality and taken
on that of the character which he is to play.
It is no loneer Possart who stands before
you, but Fabriclus, Shyloekf Bthrendt, Ser
niei.or whatever bis role of the evening
maybe. '
Thx acme of medicine, Salvation Oil, all
druirit "U1 Up ,wwtv4TttlJibttle.
DECLINE OF THE RACE
Facts as to the Mortality Among In
dian School Graduates,
ANSWER TO EECENT CRITICISM.
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mined by Disease.
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HOEE GAEE IN BELECTIHG PUPILS
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Koefolk, Va,, January 10. "The sys
tem of government that has kept the Indian
shut up on reservations, confined in poorly
ventilated cabins, half clothed and half fed,
and with no incentive to work and improve
his condition, has in the past two genera
tions changed a hardy and vigorous race to
a scrofulous and consumptive one 1"
That is the forcible manner in which the
Hampton Indian School management an
swers the attack of John Grass, the Sioux
chieftain, and Secretary Irvine Miller, of
the Sioux Commission, tipon the system of
Eastern school education for the red wards
of the nation. In a sensational Washington
dispatch ot January 1 Mr. Miller confirmed
all of Grass' complaints, and declared that
from 30 to 70 per cent of Hampton and Car
lisle students die like sheep upon their re
turn to the West, because of the effect or the
Eastern climate or the enervating influence
of closed houses after their outdoor lite on
the plains,
I went down to the auaint Virginia town
of Hampton to investigate this startling
statement The Normal and Agricultural
Institute there now has over 600 students of
both sexes. Of these 120 are Indians and
the balance are negroes. More or less local
interest attaches to this remarkable institu
tion in your city, because it was founded
partly with money bequeathed for that pur
pose by Charles Avery, the old-time Pitts
burg merchant, who became famons as a
benefactor of the black people. Josiah
King, Esq., the late Pittsburg editor, was
one ot the leading supporters iof the school
also, and a portrait ot his venerable face
now ornaments the private office of General
S. C. Armstrong. Principal.
The weather seemed to me 'milder at
Hampton on that day than it had been in
Washington, and a baseball match between
two of the college nines was in progress
when I arrived. Yet, among the spectators
I noticed one stalwart Indian boy, wearing
heavy sheep-skin gloves. Another wore a
closely-buttoned, overcoat, and so slender
and spare-featured was he that I was sure
that I saw him shiver when two buttons
slipped loose in the course of an exciting
home run. A few other Indians had their
throats well protected by red bandana
handkerchiefs. Still, the majority of these
Western recruits for education were dressed
to suit the mild climate. But among the
hundreds of negro boys standing around I
could not see a single one who had taken
any such precautions Jrom a possible damp
zephyr from the ocean just beyond. There
was that marked abandon of all winter
clothing among them typical of Southern
swarthiness.
IT SPOILS OLD IDEAS.
"Sitting Bull" out on the war path wear
ing glovesl The Modocs wrapping their
bare arms and manly bosoms in the folds of
great overcoats belore leading United States
cavalrymen a chase! "Towering Eagle"
adjusting his spectacles before sighting his
rifle on the big game of the Dakotasl
These contrasts suggested themselves to
me as I turned from the dozrn chilly Indian
students, only to encounter a somewhat
dignified' Oneida Indian boy who wore
spectaoles and displayed a clean pair of
cuffs over the pack of textbooks he carried.
This last incident reminded me of Secretary
Miller's second objection to Eastern schools,
viz: that the time spent in the East gives
these young sprigs of the forest airs and
habits which make them despise their
parents when they return home, thus spoil
ing their promised usefulness.
But it was the unexpected discovery of
the Indlan-boys-afraid-of-the-cold that
struck me most ' How terribly the Indian
race must have degenerated from their for
mer greatness and their original strength of
body and constitutions! A healthy nnditv
of body always accompanied the suggestion
of the title "American Indian'" That is
only a tradition now.
"I have been told by good physicians,"
said Miss Cora M. Folsom, the teacher who
oversees the Indian work at Hampton and
keeps a record of its graduates in the far
West, "I have been told by these physicians
that they had never seen an Indian with
perfectly sound lungs, and they did not be
lieve such an one existed.
"And yet," she continued, laughing,
"tbev will not solve the vexed race problem
by dying out, but hold their own in num
bers." .
General Armstrong, the principal, tola me
that the reports of a dreadful mortality
among Hampton's returned pupils were mis
leading. "In ten years," he explained, "this
school has sent back to the West 247 young
Indian men and women. During the first
six years the mortality was heavy, 66 dying
after returning home. Bnt bince 1884 up
to the present only six have died at their
homes a decided decrease. In the earlier
years of the Hampton experiment the In
dians were taken right out of the wild camps
and brought to a climate and mode of living
so new to them that their frail and diseased
bodies had to give way under the strain.
The reason of the decrease in deaths since
then is the fact that we now bring better
material East, drawing from local schools
that have arisen since then among the In
dians. Ai the primary schools of the West
improve we will be able to get more and
more tested pupils, and thus decrease the
death rate still more."
AN INVESTIGATION COTJBTED.
There have been some 25 deaths of students
.while at Hampton, which are not indicated
in the above figures. They were from the
same causes and have been "decreased in the
same ratio for similar reasons. This would
make nearly 100 of the 313 pupils who have
been at Hampton, now dead. (The 247 be
fore mentioned were full fledged graduates
only.) That is certainly a larger mortuary
record than that of any other college or nor
mal or technical school in the country. It,
at first glance, wonld seem to bear out the
assertions made by the Sioux Commission,
though the defense of the school is fully as
reasonable because the largest number of
deaths were prior to 1884, a way to improve
ment now having been lonnd. It is hardly
fair to disconrage efforts at improvement,
General Armstrong thinks. He courts in
vestigation -by Congress on the subject
Principal Armstrong turned me over to
Miss Folsom. She is a lady experienced in
Indian work and was among them in their
Western life last summer. "Th6 Indians
are so contaminated with scrofula and pul
monary weaknesses," she said, "that our
earlier students hero were our very wnt
from a physical standpoint Picked up out
of wild camps they were sent to us by un
scrupulousmedicafexaminers there who were
glad to get rid of them. The Sioux, com
ing down to this low country from the dry
heights of Dakota felt the effects ot the big
change in elevation and climate. That is
why the mortality was the heaviest at Stand
ing Bock which, by the way, is John Grass'
region. Conditions are now changed.
The local schools have tested
material pupils already grown acenstomed
to the indoor civilized life. These we take
instead of 'blanket Indians,' or where we
accept married men and women and we
have educated many such couples here in
our cottages at Hampton they have been
watched and recommended by responsible
parties.
OABETUL MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
"AlUrexaainedtmedicalljlB.lteytt,
before they come here, and then they are
examined here upon arrival. In one party
of 30 1 brought back from the West with me
last summer, 10 were pronounced unsound
and somewhat delicate when we got here.
That is why we haye quite a number with
us now who take good care of themselves
and will, in all probability, go back cured.
Wo now have 83 graduates at Standing
Bock, Dak., and in a letter I received yes
terday from one of them, he said all were
well. I do not know whether that can be
depended upon. It is the system of Govern
ment indulgence and isolation that has
made the Indian race the unhealthy one it
now is. The Indians are full of scrofnla
and kindred diseases, and those were long
seated before they came here."
It was Swift Bird, one of the visiting
Siouxhiefs, who said at Washington the
other day arter returning from Hampton:
"The breath of the earth rises .up there and
poisons our children." He 'meant a fog.
Well, by mere chance John Bruyier, a
nephew of Swift Bird, waa among the In
dian boys whom I interviewed at the school
yesterday. "It was foggy the morning the
chiefs were down here," be said in respect
able English, "but fogs are not so very com
mon here. All letters I get irom home say
.nothing of ill health. I am not afraid of
dying when I go back" and here he ex
panded a robust chest with pride and cast
his twinkling eves toward his little lady
teacher. "No, I was not home sick when
the big chiefs visited us the other day. I
want to stay here and finish my education."
John Pattee, another Indian lad, re
marked: "I want to be like the white peo
ple, die or no die."
"Little Wolf," a stolid-faced Indian girl,
well wrapped in a red striped shawl, uttered
a "ugh," when I asked her bow her health
was. and I failed to make much out of her
broken English.
Miss Folsom, the teacher, told me also
that Secretary Miller's assertion that the
students return home to despise their parents
and refnse toliye with them in their squalor
and wretchedness, is not exactly true. Edu
cation makes no such disposition, but it does
create an edifying gap because the boy or
girl who for three years has been eating at
the table of Eastern civilization feels a fine
disgust when he goes home and is compelled
to eat from the floor of the family teppee.
As a result very few of the Hampton stu
dents have "gone back to the blanket" Of
247 graduates, 230 have satisfactory records
since returning, 60 excellent, 13S good and
44 fair, and only 17 unsatisfactory.
THE -WHITES BAB THEM OUT.
All the trades are taught in the industrial
department of Hampton School. Harness
making, blacksmithing and carpentering
are favorites with the red boys, bnt when
they return borne they find dissolute white
"agency hangers-oa" given the preference
in blacksmith and harness shops. Seven
teen graduates are teachers in the local In
dian schools. Nine are Episcopal catechists,
who must live and labor on tbeirown farms,
to set a, good example, and at the same time
take the part of a circuit-reading preacher.
Their influence is said to be powerful. The
other male graduates scatter among the In
dians to assist in the dissipation of tribal
jealousies, and to set good examples is to
industry. The girls graduated at Hampton
have married legally or will marry. Some
have "gone to the bad" by becoming
"squaws of the blanket" in spite of educa
tion. Hereditary weakness was the more
powerful.
Some 12 couples have been married right
at Hampton. Efforts were made with the
couples who were married before they came
here to inspire Christian and industrious
habits, but they did not always succeed.
One of these couples stayed here three years
"Michael" Levering and wire. She was
pretty, he was very' handsome. After grad
uation they started for home, stopping by
leave at Carlisle, Pa., to see the other In
dian school. Buffalo Bill's Wild West
show was in the town jnst at that time. One
of the ugliest girls in the show attraeted
Levering' attention. He eloped. with her,
and bis deserted wife had to go back to
Hampton for refuge. Levexjng's edneation
was certainly completed, and he was thor
oughly Americanized. Woods.
BTEANPED SHIPS SLIDE BAGS,
Bnt Only After a Terr Complicated and
Co it It Procesi.
New York Times.
For 14 months the schooner Dame re
mained outof water on the beach just below
Sandy Hook, When finally she was success
fully launched. The method pnrsuedin
getting the craft into the water was to raise
her by bnge jacks, and when she was suffi
ciently high & staging was built under her.
Down this staging the schooner was allowed
to slide into deep water. It Is only recently
that the Dame has been put into the coast
ing trade, and her advent here now recalls
very generally the sight of the vessel which
for so many months lay high and dry on the
Jersey coast
The operation of getting a vessel off a
beach is an extremely difficult one, and
cases are rare where it is successful. One
of the most interesting performances of this
kind known to seamen was that of the
Gorgon. This vessel was a British man-of-war
of 1,200 tons displacement, which some
30 years or more ago was driven ashore in a
gale near Montevideo and imbedded in
the sand to a depth of nearly 12
feet Camels were constrncted on the
spot, tanks made water-tight by intro
ducing fearnaugbt and lead within their
lids, boilers were hoisted out and made
water-tight, and these, with casks, affording
altogether a buoyancy equal to 367 tons,
were secured under the ship by means of
cables passed round be bottom.
These appliances, together with screws
and heavy purchases leading to anchors
planted astern, being dnly prepared, the
ship, on the tide filling the dock that had
been built about her, was rescued from her
perilous position.
QEEELEI'S OLD PDMPKIN PALS.
The Groyllended Remnant of Them Still
lfi eezlng Ont Yonncsteri.
New York World.!
The remnant of the old Farmers' Club, of
which Horace Greeley was a bright and
shining light, and which qsed to bold ani
mated discussions in the Cooper Union for
20 or 30 years, met in Clinton Hall yester
day. The gathering partook more of the
nature of a prayer meeting than of humble
and horny-handed tillers of the soil. There
was scarcely one of the dozennen present
whose head was not as white as dritted
snow.
Several of the old fellows wore the cravats
and apparel of half a century ago. Presi
dent Hexamer deplored the absence of
young blood in the club and invited sugges
tions as to the best means of rejuvenating
the organization. None was offered. The
members evidently were satisfied with the
existing state of affairs, and were ready to
resent the interference of a yonnger and
more radical element. Tbey preferred to
perish one by one, as did the Old Guard at
Waterloo.
' . BELLICOSITY. AND A BILLtOX.
What Six hlanths pf European War Wonld
Cast 1b Dollars.
New York Son.J
What is regarded as next to a decisive
reason why there must be European peace
is the calculation that the mobilization of
the French, German, and the Bnssian
armies wonld cost $100,000,000 and their
maintenance in the field would cost $200,
000,000 a month.
A war of six months' duration wonld
therefore use up, for theso three countries
alone, the susa of fl.300,000,000. Besides
that every nation in Europe, including
England, would have to ansa and hold itself
ready, which Would cost 'millions more.
These bilk mm ooMldtiwl too bjgh to be as-sq-stA
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
The story opens on the Welsh coast. Beatrice Granger, village schoolmistress and dauznts
of the rector of Brjngelly, while paddling In her canoe, hears a gnnshot. As she approaches too
Bed Bocks she discovers Geoffrey Bingham, a youn;: London barrister, who Is married to a woman
of title, and who has been shooting curlews. Bingham has been cut off from shore by the rising
tide and accepts Beatrice's offer to take him to shore In her canoe. Beatrice tells Geoffrey tba
she Is tired of her monotonous surroundings and aspires to something higher. A storm comes
up suddenly, and with death staring them In the face Beatrice confesses that she has no rellgfotu
hope. The carioe Is overwhelmed by a wave, Its occupants are cast into the raging waters,
and Geoffrey becomes unconscious.
CHAPTEB IV.
THB WATOHEE AT THE DOOB.
HIS was what had
Irailtaiii itllli!l Tiuul. about the center nf
the reef is a large
flat-topped rock it
may be 20 feet in the
square known to
the Bryngelly fisher
men as Table Bock.
In ordinary weather,
even at high tide,
the waters scarcely
cover this rock, but
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when there is
any sea they wash over it
with great violence.
On to this rock
Geoffry and Beatrice had been hurled by
the breaker. Fortunately for them it was
thickly overgrown by seaweed, which to
some slight extent broke the violence of the
fall. As it was, Geoffrey was knocked
senseless by the shock; but Beatrice, whose
hand he Btill held, fell on to him, and, with
the exception of a few bruises and a shake,
escaped unhurt
She struggled to her knees, gasping. The
water had run off .the rock, and her com
panion lay quiet at her side. She put down
her face and called into his ear, but no
answer came, and then she knew that he was
either dead or senseless.
At this second she caught a glimpse of
something white gleaming in the darkness.
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Instinctively she flung herself upon her
face, gripping the long tough seaweed with
one hand. The other she passed round the
body of the helpless man beside her, strain
ing him with all her strength against her
side.
Then came a wild long rush of foam. The
water lifted her from the rock, bnt the sea
weed held, and when at length the sea had
gone boiling by she found herself and the
senseless form of Geoffrey once more lying
side by side. She was half choked. Desper
ately she struggled up and round, looking
shoreward through the darkness, Heavens!
there, not a hundred vards away, a light
shone upon the waters. It wasaboat's light,
for it moved up and down. She filled her
lungs with air and sent one long cry for
help ringing across the sea. A moment
passed and she thought she heard an answer,
bnt because of the wind and the roar of the
breakers she could not be sure. Then she
turned and glanced seaward. Again the
foaming terro was rushing down upon them;
again she flung herself upon the rock and,
grasping the slippery seaweed, twined her
left arm about the helpless Geoffrey.
It was on them.
Ob, horror! Even in the turmoil of the
boiling waters she felt the seaweed give.
Now they were being swept along With the
rushing wave, and death drew very near.
Bnt still she clung to Geoffrey. Once more
the air touched her face. She had risen to
the surface, and was floating on the stormy'
water. The wave had passed. Loosing her
hold of-Geoffrey, she slipped her hand up
ward, and as he began, to sink clutched him
by the hair. Then treading water with her
feet for happily for them both she was as
good a swimmer as conld be found upon tbat
coast she managed to open her eyes. There,
not 60 yards away, was the boat's light
Oh, if she could only reach it She spat the
salt water from her mouth, and once more
cried aloud. The light seemed to move on.
Then another wave rolled forward, and
once more she was poshed down into the
crnel depths, for with that dead weight
hanging to her she could not keep above it
It flashed into her mind tbat it she let him
go she might even now save herself, bnt
even in that last te rror this she would not
do. If he went fche would go with him.
It would have been better if she had let
him go.
Down she went down, down! "I will
hold him," she said inherheart:"I will hold
him till I die." Then came waves of light
and a sound as of wind whispering through
the trees, and all grew dark.
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"I tell ver it ain't
no good, .Eddard,
shouted a man in the boatto an old sailor.
who was leaning forward in the bows peer
ing into the darkness. "We shall be right
on to the Table Bocks in a minute and all
drown together. Put about, mate put
about"
"Ye cowards, screamed the old man,
turning so tbat the light from the lantern
fell on his furrowed, fiercely anxious face
and long white hair streaming in the wind.
I tells yer I heard her voice I heard it
twice screaming for help. If ye put the boat
about by Heaven when I get ashore I'll
kill yer, ye lubbers old man as I am, I'lt
kill yer if I swing for it"
This determined sentiment produced a
marked eSect upon the boat's crew; there
were eight of them altogether. They did
not put the boat abont they only lay upon
their oars and kept her head to the seas.
The old man in the bow peered out Into
the gloom. He was shaking not with cold,
bnt with agitation.
Prsfeatly h taratd bJchend wit yell. (
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"Give way give way! there's something
on the wave."
The men obeyed with a will.
"Back," he roared again "back waterl"
They backed, and the boat answered, but
nothing waa to be seen.
"She's gone! Ob, heaven, she'a gone!"
groaned the old man. "Yon nfay put about
now, lad, and the Lord's will be done."
The light from the lantern fell la a little
ring upon the swells of water. Suddenly
something while appeared in the center of
this illuminated ring. It was a woman's
face. With a yell he plunged his arms into
the sea.
"I have her lend a hand, lads."
Another man scrambled forward, and to
gether they clutched the object In the water.
"Look opt, don't pull so hard, you fool.
Bust me if there ain't another, and she's got
him by the hair. So, steady, steady!"
A long heave from strong arms, and the
senseless form of Beatrice was on the gun
wale. Then they pulled up Geoffrey beside
her, for they could not loose her desperate
grip of his dark hair, and together rolled
them into the boat.
"They're dead, I doubt," said the second
man.
"Help turn 'em on their faces over the
seat, so let the water drain from their int
nards. It's the only chance. Now give ma
that sail to cover them so. You'll live vet
Miss Beatrice; you ain't dead, I swear. Old
Eddard has saved you, old Eddard and the
good Goad together."
Meanwhile the boat had been got ronnd,
and the men were rowing for Bryngelly as
warm-hearted sailors will when life is at
stake. They all knew Beatrice and loved
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her, and they remembered it as they rowed.
The gloom was little hindrance to them, for
they could almost have navigated the coast
blindfolded. Besides, here they were shel
tered by the reef and shore.
In five minutes tbey wete round a little
headland, and the lights of Bryngelly were
close before them. On the beach people
were moving about with lanterns.
Presently they were there, hanging on
their oars for a favorable wave to beach
with. At last it came, and they gave way
logeiner, running tne large boat nail out of
the surf. A dozen men plnnged into the
surf and dragged her on. They were safe
ashore.
"Have you got Miss Beatrice?" shouted a
voice.
"Ay. we've got her and another, too, but
I doubt they're gone. Where's doctor?"
"H ere, here I" answered a voice. "Bring
the stretchers."
A stout thick-set man, who had been
listening, warpped up in a dark cloak,
turned his face away and gave a groan.
Then he followed the others as they went
to work, not offering help, but merely fol
lowing. The stretchers were brought and the two
bodies laid upon them, face downward and
covered over.
"Whereto?" said the bearers as they
seized the poles.
"The vicarage," answered the doctor. "I
told them to get things ready there in case
tbey should find her. Bun forward one of
you and say that we are coming."
The men started at a trot and the crowd
ran after them.
"Who is the other?" somebody asked.
"Mr. Bingham the tall lawyer who
came down from London the other day.
Tell policeman run to his wife. She's at
Mrs. Jones', and thinks he has lost his way
coming-home from Bell Bock."
Accordingly the policeman departed on
his melancholy errand; and the procession
moved swiftly across the sandy beach and
up the stone-paved way by which boats were
dragged down the cliff to the sea. The vil
lage or Bryngelly lay to the right It had
grown away from the church, which stood
dangerously near the edge of the cliff. On
the further side-of the church, and a little
behind it.partly sheltered from the sea gales
by a group of stunted firs, was the vicarage,
a low, single-storied, stone-roofed building,
tenanted for 20 years past and more by
xcawico b lamer, me jsev. oosepn uranger.
The best approach to it from the Byrngelly
side was by the churchyard, through which
the men with the stretchers were now wind
ing, followed by the crowd of sightseers.
"Might aa well leave them here at once,"
said one of the bearers to the other in
Welsh. "I doubt they are both dead
enough."
The person addressed assented, and tha
thick-set man wrapped In the dark cloak,
who was striding along by Beatrice's
stretcher, groaned again. Clearly, he un
derstood the Welsh tongne. A few second
more and they were passing through tha
stunted firs up to the vicarage door. In the
doorway stood a group of people. The light
from a lamp in the hall struck upon them,
throwing them into a strong relief. Fore
most, holding a lantern in his hand, was a
man of abont 60, with snow-white hair
which fell in confusion over his rugged
forehead. Ho was of middle height and '
carried himself with something of a stoop.
The eyes were small and shifting, and the
mouth hard. He wore short whiskers
which, together with the eyebrows, were
still tinged with yellow. The face waa
ruddy and healthy looking; indeed, had it
not been for the dirtr white tie and shabby
black coat one would have taken him to bo1
whit he was in heart, a farrier of the harder
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